shell ethics

Royal Dutch Shell’s long shadow across the 20th and 21st centuries is no longer a private ledger of corporate decisions; it has become public material for historians, shareholders, litigants—and now generative AIs. The result is a blunt, inconvenient question for the board at Shell’s next AGM...

On 29 October 2025 John Donovan published what he says is the unredacted transcript of a conversation with Microsoft Copilot about Royal Dutch Shell’s ethics — a public flashpoint that crystallises three decades of commercial disputes, a sprawling online archive of leaked documents, and an...

On 29 October 2025 John Donovan published what he says is the unredacted transcript of a conversation with Microsoft Copilot about Royal Dutch Shell’s ethics — a public moment that crystallises three decades of rancour, a vast online archive of leaked documents, and an argument over how far...